InDesign Skullduggery

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#1

So THIS is new. For some reason when I paste text into an InDesign file I’m getting a white highlighted background behind the text. I’ve tried pasting from Word & Text edit, same thing. So’s I Googled it and it seems like it has something to do with stylesheets. Then I notice this weird little icon in my Paragraph Styles window.
wtf

If I highlight the text and hit [Basic Paragraph} it’ll go away, but the issue is the background highlight is white, so I don’t see it and if I’ve styled text boxes all that work goes buh-bye. Does anyone have ANY clue wth is going on? Let me know if you need any clarifications & thanks for any help!

#2

That icon means the style was imported from the word document.

You can edit the style and remove the formatting and once edited it goes away.

Or in preferences in clipboard handling change to plain text when pasting and it will only paste without any formatting.

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#3

And don’t use basic paragraph style.
And don’t base new styles on this. Look up an article called beware of basic styles.

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#4

Oh this makes total sense, I’ll bet my freaking boss has a white highlight checked in his word docs and that’s the style I’m importing.Cool, I’ll go call him a big loser and fix it. But I did change it up in the prefs, thank you so much!!

#5

Well it means they have a paragraph style in the Word doc with this turned on. So that’s why it comes in as a style with that formating, whether it’s a thick underlines/strikethrough/rule above|below/ or something else.

#6

Another handy tip is to use Paste without Formatting (Ctrl+Shift+V on Windows) when bringing text from Word or other apps into InDesign. That way, InDesign will insert plain text using your document’s default style, so you avoid any unexpected styles or highlights.

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